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Critical literacy in the information age: Lies, damn lies and
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Callingham, RA, Critical literacy in the information age: Lies, damn lies and, Proceedings of the Multiliteracies & English Teaching K-12 In The Age Of Information & Communication Technologies Conference, 24 - 27 November 2004, NSW, Australia, pp. 1 - 8. ISBN 1 86389 938 3 (2005) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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Abstract
As the authority of teachers and parents wanes, students increasingly turn to
various media for advice and information. What skills, knowledge and
understandings are needed for students to sort fact from fiction? How do students
make sense of information presented in diagrams, charts or graphs? What meaning
can be attached to advertising claims on television? Of more importance to teachers
is the question of how we teach students to take a critical, questioning stance to the
information they access. In this paper, media sources are used as a basis for
developing appropriate teaching approaches to scaffold students’ thinking towards
critical understanding. Beware! This approach uses numbers.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Education |
| Research Group: | Curriculum and Pedagogy |
| Research Field: | Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy |
| Objective Division: | Education and Training |
| Objective Group: | Curriculum |
| Objective Field: | Assessment and Evaluation of Curriculum |
| UTAS Author: | Callingham, RA (Associate Professor Rosemary Callingham) |
| ID Code: | 76258 |
| Year Published: | 2005 |
| Deposited By: | Education |
| Deposited On: | 2012-03-02 |
| Last Modified: | 2014-11-25 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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